Not far from Florence, the Tuscan hills harbour a village full of light and memories. At Vinci, Leonardo's genius seems to ...

When Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ was sold in 2017 for $450 million it caused a sensation. Dismissed as an anonymous ‘wreck’ just 12 years before, it had become the single most ...

Leonardo da Vinci travelled by horseback from Italy to France with the Mona Lisa carefully rolled up in his saddlebag.

In the quiet German town of Mannheim, two radical inventions—the bicycle and the automobile—took their first wobbly rides and ...

At long last, Berenson had freed himself from the vampiric face of the Mona Lisa. Today Leonardo’s painting, happily ...

While the fastest, most agile aircraft in the world undoubtedly still fill military hangars, the fastest civilian helicopters ...

Burn after reading.” For German agent Karl Muller, that advice would have really helped. Muller, a spy who masqueraded as a Russian shipbroker and ...

Spy used pen nibs dipped in lemon to write invisible messages to his counterparts. He relayed his secrets in between lines of ...

What secrets do history’s luminaries share? Widely considered to be one of today’s most insightful biographers, Walter Isaacson captures the unique cultural currents surrounding remarkable ...